Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-08-09
State News.
ANpRoscoGGIN.

ANDRosCoGGIN.
The Lewiston Journal of SATURDAY. saws
We stated few days ago that DR. H. T
Cummings. Commissioner of Phsrmaey, hsC
been on tour of Lewiston drug stores, Il
see whether all of them bad passed he ex
animation and secured the registration re
CURED by law. His investigation reveal:
that eight, if not ten, alleged druggists il
this city had neither register. nor kn0s ledge
Of the business. but are simply disguise fol
rum shops The Portland Press has thi,
from DIR. Cummings The propris tors O
three of the stores r. fused to answer any OF
DIR Cummings questions. and seemed tC
look upon him IS a man that was interfering
with something that was none of his business
These three DIR Cumming. has got first Z
the list DR. Cummings found the manag
ment of the drug store from which the deadis
wine of colchcum was sold with such fat
results few weeks ago, under far from sal
lsfactory management, and he has that on his
list for further investigation. II is altogether
probable that complaint will DE made again,
some, or all. of the eight druggists, and thai
the county attorney of Androscoggin county
will have something to do in the matter"
Mr.. w H. Pollister, an emplove in A.
Records leatherboard MILL It Livermore
y.
day forenoon. He was al work on the Coulter, VI
4 machine used in cutting up ropes. rags etc.
tie accidentally caught his arm in some par,
of the machine and the flesh on his | f: hand
was torn away FRI m the wrist joint to the
knuckies leaving bare the tendons, arteries,
ere. One wrist bone was broken. He was
as comfortable this morning as could be ex
pected. 1t is doubtful if he ever has the use
Of bis hand again.-At Livermore Falls, the
other day, woman living in the village was
taken i'll, and one of the physicians received
call for some medicine for her relief.
Among other things, he sent her a generous
dose OF mustard, to be applied in the form OF
poultice on the back of the neck Instead,
she mixed the entire quentity of mustard
with glass of water, AID drank it. 1t threw
her tito violent fit of vomiting, and she
suffered intense pain She is doing we'll now
and bids fair TO recover, but wont drink
another mustard poultice.
ARoosTooK
A three year old child of S. J Palmer, Of
Fort Fairfield. was drowned IN Haines' mill
pond THURSDAY night.
CUMBERLAND.
Considerable excitement was aroused on
DanfOrth street, Portland, Saturday eve ing.
Boys while digging over some oarreis of
ashes found q human /, fit hand partially de
composed A of the fingers had been cut
of at the first joint and III fl sh of the palm
vas gone. The wrist lad been severed in a
llsgonal dir elton and considerable of thu
fish adhered at this point. The boys put
the find in an old can and CARR d il into tn
yard of Mr.. Silas Plummer. TIE news soon
spr ad and quite breeze of excitement pre-
II tnr bllp Ia, - h,k
from d!ssectnI room, though how it got
Into the barrel OF ASH is mystery
A special town meeting was held Saturday
in Deerrg rne otJ-ct If the meeting. as
stated in call signed by Mr. l.. B Dennett
and several others. was 10 secure au add
tloDal appropriation Of 81 GOO to conf etc
The ne@ schOo! house Al WoodfDrds. The
original appropriation, $3.50, has been ex
pended save little over 500, and the extra
money was asked tor 10 put III the beating
apparatus and finish thu building N money
was voted. fhe matter will have TO come
up again next sprirg
The Diamond Wrench Company Portland,
started up their large factory again July rs.
and arr now running full blast. They man
ufacture nine sizes OF the wrench in two
varieties. bright and green finish. They are
now making from 200 to 800 daily, and about
one-half their productions find their market
10 foreign countries.
FRANKLIN.
There is a revival influence and otl, er good
respl s from the labors of the new istor OF
The Congregational church at Phillips, Rev.
Arthur Fitcomb. Several young lady mem
bers OF Miss Cornelia Crosley's Sunday
School class have been converted and some
have Joined the church. Mr. Titcomb a.o
breaches for the Congregationalists of N W
Vineyard. -There seems to be determined
effort to strike down what little remains of
the rum traffic IN this vicinity, and several
prosecutions have lately taken place, and it is
rumsred that there are still more to follow.
KNOX.
The hotels and boarding houses of Camden
have had large rush of guests during the
past week. The Bay View has been un-
usually crowded. The summer travel con.
tioues to set toward Camden. 1t will be
more and more so as its charming scenery be.
comes more widely known.--Capt. E II.
Brsmhall has closed the contract with Hon.
l.. b. Smith Consul at Curacao for a steam
tug boat and seventeen pontoons for a pom
toon bridge across the habor of Curacao, to
be completed by the 10Th of December next.
The pontoons will be built of hackmatack
timber and pine planking, copper fastened
and coppered. The bridge will be 700 feet
long and 20 feet wide and 500 feet of it vii
be so arranged as to swing each way and
allow free passage of vessels.-Mr Douglas
Adams, artist Of London, England, has been
spending few weeks in Ctmden, guest a,
The Bay View House. He j. highly pleased
with the scen-ry of Camden and has made
severa. sketches near Dillingham; cottage
and at Sherman's Point. One of Mouse Is
land. just to the eastward of Sherman's Point
is a tiHely col0rsd and well executed sketch
From Camden Mr.. Adams will 60 to Mount
Desert 10 obtain sketches of the scenery OF
that section.
LINCOLN.
A new summer settlement is psnned a
Pemaquid. Capt c. A. Sproul OF that place
has given away several lots far building The
place i. finely located at the head of John,
Bay with beach of one mile, giving gooC
facilities for boa'ing, fishing aud bathing. saw,
the Lewiston Journal All people whC
nave visited the place can confirm all that hai
oeen said of the fine facilities OF Pemsquid q.
a summer resort.
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